We compared TeamCity and GitLab based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Overall, TeamCity users have expressed the need for improvement in areas such as user interface, documentation, integration capabilities, and performance. On the other hand, GitLab users find the pricing, setup cost, and licensing reasonable and flexible. Enhancement suggestions focus on user interface, performance, and project management features. GitLab's customer service is highly praised, while TeamCity users have highlighted its positive impact on project management and efficiency.
Features: TeamCity stands out for its seamless integration with various build tools, intuitive interface, efficient project management, extensive customization options, and strong support for test management. Meanwhile, GitLab is appreciated for its robust version control, collaborative tools, powerful CI/CD pipelines, comprehensive issue tracking system, customizable workflows, and security measures.
Pricing and ROI: The setup cost of TeamCity and GitLab differs in terms of users' satisfaction. TeamCity's setup cost is manageable without complications, whereas GitLab offers easy and straightforward setup. As for licensing, TeamCity has a straightforward process, while GitLab provides flexible and convenient options., The ROI from TeamCity is praised for its positive impact on project management, increased efficiency, and improved collaboration. GitLab users express satisfaction and highlight the platform's valuable investment for their projects or businesses.
Room for Improvement: TeamCity could improve its user interface and support for integration with other tools, as well as provide more detailed documentation. Users also desire better performance and responsiveness. In comparison, GitLab could enhance its user interface, navigation, performance for larger projects, project management features, and code review process.
Deployment and customer support: User feedback for TeamCity suggests that the duration to establish a new tech solution varies depending on circumstances. Some spend 3 months on deployment and an additional week on setup, while others spend a week on both. GitLab feedback also varies, with some spending 3 months on deployment and a week on setup, and others spending a week on both., Customers have expressed satisfaction with the customer service in TeamCity. Meanwhile, GitLab's customer service is highly praised for its prompt assistance, effective troubleshooting, helpful guidance, and dedication to assisting users. GitLab also offers detailed documentation and a strong community for collaboration.
The summary above is based on 52 interviews we conducted recently with TeamCity and GitLab users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"GitLab integrates well with other platforms."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"I like that it's easy to deploy our services over GitLab. The customer support is also good with a really active community. You have a lot of support that you can get online with your stack. That is probably one of the benefits of using GitLab. It's also really fast."
"GitLab is very useful for pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It is also stable."
"We have seen a couple of merge requests or pull requests raised in GitLab. I see the interface, the way it shows the difference between the two source codes, that it is easy for anyone to do the review and then accept the request; the pull request is the valuable feature."
"It is a speedy platform compared to the others I have used. I have also enjoyed using the platform as this solution offers a good user experience."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"The flexibility of TeamCity allows it to fit in workflows that I have yet to imagine."
"TeamCity's GUI is nice."
"Time to deployment has been reduced in situations where we want to deploy to production or deploy breaking changes."
"It provides repeatable CI/CD throughout our company with lots of feedback on failures and successes to the intended audiences via email and Slack."
"VCS Trigger: Provides excellent source control support."
"It's easy to move to a new release because of templates and meta-runners, and agent pooling."
"We would like to see better integration with other version controls, since we encountered difficulty when this we first attempted."
"TeamCity is a very user-friendly tool."
"For as long as I have used GitLab, I haven't encountered any major limitations. However, I think that perhaps the search functionality could be better."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."
"The solution could be faster."
"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"Last time I used it, dotnet compilation had to be done via PowerShell scripts. There was actually a lot that had to be scripted."
"The UI for this solution could be improved. New users don't find it easy to navigate. The need some level of training to understand the ins and the outs."
"Integrating with certain technologies posed challenges related to time and required support from the respective technology teams to ensure smooth integration with TeamCity."
"If TeamCity could create more out of the box solutions to make it more user friendly and create more use cases, that would be ideal."
"REST API support lacks many features in customization of builds, jobs, and settings."
"It will benefit this solution if they keep up to date with other CI/CD systems out there."
"Their online documentation is fairly extensive, but sometimes you can end up navigating in circles to find answers. I would like them (or partner with someone) to provide training classes to help newcomers get things up and running more quickly."
"I need some more graphical design."
GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews while TeamCity is ranked 6th in Build Automation with 25 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while TeamCity is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TeamCity writes "Build management system used to successfully create full request tests and run security scans". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Jenkins, whereas TeamCity is most compared with CircleCI, Jenkins, Harness, GitHub Actions and Tekton. See our GitLab vs. TeamCity report.
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